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A compact container system which utilizes minimal storage space is provided for packaging and shipment of an electric garage door opener. Among the many components of the container system is a corrugated cardboard shipping carton for snugly holding the motor unit or power opener head of the garage d

A compact container system which utilizes minimal storage space is provided for packaging and shipment of an electric garage door opener. Among the many components of the container system is a corrugated cardboard shipping carton for snugly holding the motor unit or power opener head of the garage door opener. One of the sidewalls of the shipping carton includes an access flap for the optional insertion of an auxiliary transmitter.

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A variable capacity carton having seven elongated panels including a first rectangular panel, a second rectangular panel larger than the first panel and longitudinally hinged at one end thereof to one end of the first panel, a third Rectangular panel similar in size to the first panel and hinged at

A variable capacity carton having seven elongated panels including a first rectangular panel, a second rectangular panel larger than the first panel and longitudinally hinged at one end thereof to one end of the first panel, a third Rectangular panel similar in size to the first panel and hinged at one end to the other end of the second panel, a fourth panel similar in size to the second panel and longitudinally hinged along one end to the other end of the third panel, a fifth rectangular panel longitudinally hinged along one end to the other end of the fourth panel, a sixth rectangular panel similar in size to be the fourth panel and longitudinally hinged along one end to the other end of the fifth panel, a seventh rectangular panel similar in size to the fifth panel and longitudinally hinged along one end to the other end of the sixth panel, said carton constructed and arranged to be erected to rectangular or box form with the fourth and sixth panels being spaced parallel to each other and forming the longitudinal sidewalls of the carton and the fifth and seventh panels being spaced parallel to each other at right angles to the fourth and sixth panels and forming the transverse sidewalls of the carton, each of the panels being of substantially equal length, the first panel secured to the interior side of the fourth panel, the third panel secured to the interior side of the seventh panel, the second panel providing a common wall interposed between the second and sixth panels and in parallel relationship thereto to provide a first elongated compartment adjacent the fourth panel and a second elongated compartment adjacent the sixth panel occupying greater volume than the first compartment, a first upper transverse flap hinged to the top edge of the fifth panel, a second upper transverse flap hinged to the top edge of the seventh panel, a top flap hinged to the upper edge of the fourth panel and cooperating with the first and second upper transverse flaps to provide the top walls of the carton, a rounded edged flap hinged to the upper edge of the top flap for positioning adjacent the sixth panel, a first upper rectangular flap having a longitudinal edge hinged to the upper edge of the sixth panel, a second upper rectangular flap having a longitudinal edge hinged to another longitudinal edge of the first upper rectangular flap, a third upper rectangular flap similar in size to the first upper rectangular flap and having a longitudinal edge hinged along the other longitudinal edge of the second upper rectangular flap, the upper rectangular flaps constructed and arranged to provide a chamber or cavity at the upper end of the second compartment for receiving a transmitter comprising part of the electric garage door opener, a first lower transverse flap hinged to the bottom edge of the fifth panel, a second lower transverse flap hinged to the bottom edge of the seventh panel, a bottom flap hinged to the bottom edge of the sixth panel, a lower rounded edged flap hinged to the lower edge of the bottom flap, the bottom flap cooperating with the lower transverse flaps to provide the bottom wall of the carton, the fifth panel being horizontally severed to provide a first rectangular pocket flap hinged along a vertical score line in the fifth panel, the sixth panel being horizontally severed to provide second and third rectangular pocket flaps with the second pocket flap hinged along a vertical score line in the sixth panel and a third rectangular pocket flap hinged along another vertical score line in the sixth panel, the seventh panel being horizontally severed to provide a fourth rectangular pocket flap hinged along a vertical score line in the seventh panel, the rectangular pocket flaps being substantially equal in size with the first pocket flap hinged to the second pocket flap and the third pocket flap hinged to the fourth pocket flap and the pocket flaps being movable into the interior of the carton for partially blocking the second elongated compartment to hold a first sized receiver to an outward position avoiding blockage of the second elongated compartment for optionally accommodating storage of a second sized elongated receiver.